Industrial Unrest OBITUARY i Mr J.D. Henderson

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32360, 28 July 1970, Page 16

Industrial Unrest

OBITUARY i Mr J.D. Henderson

Sir,—Over the last 18 years I have been expounding and propounding from the housetops and the hustings a certain monetary reform policy agitating for additional purchasing power in the pockets of the people. During this time hundreds of people, from teachers to tradesmen, from farmersto factory wprki

ers, from bus-drivers to bar-1 men, have posed the same : question: “But where is the i extra money coming from?” 1 Now, throughout the country, i the teachers, the tradesmen, i the farmers, the factory workers, the bus-drivers and the barmen are cajoling, cadging, and clamouring for more purchasing power to enable them to pay the higher prices for the things they produce as a nation. I wonder if they ever ask themselves, or does anyone bother to ask them: “But where is the extra money coming from?” That aspect does not seem to worry them any more, so the laugh is on moor is it?—Yours, etc., G. M. EDMONDS. July 26, 1970. Sir,—The president of the F.O.L. is reported as saying “an industrial dispute cannot, be settled by force.” Yet this is exactly what unions are doing and attempting to do. Only toe Mg disputes receive 1 publicity, but companies 1 throughout the country are having pistols put to their ' heads with the ultimatum, “This is what you pay—or’ else.” Union officials know 1 that there is a shortage of labour; they also know that ’ because of the non-function- ] ing of the Arbitration Court i there is no umpire and so are , confident in making unreason-, able and unjustifiable de- j

1 The death occurred at the end of last week of Mr J. D. Henderson, of Halkett a former chairman of the Paparua County Council and a successful ploughing competitor, judge and administrator. He was 74. Mr Henderson, as president of the conference of Canterbury ploughing match associations, was consulted before the New Zealand ploughing championships were inaugurated in 1956 under the auspices of the Atlantic Union Oil Company. Mr Henderson ploughed in ' his first match in the Cour- . tenay district in 1912, as a ; boy of 16 and he won. In ; 1924 he took up the secretary- ■ ship of the local association . and served as secretary of the . Cburtenay-Paparua Ploughing . Match Association for 28 ' years. For a number of years from 1955, he was president of the association. He also was a former member of the executive of the New Zealand Ploughing Association. Mr Henderson served on the Courtenay Agricultural and Pastoral Association as ■ treasurer and president He was born in the Halkett . district and lived there all • his life. His farm is now i worked by two sons, Messrs i W. D. and E. J. Henderson. ■ He is survived by his wife ; and also two daughters—Mrs . C. H. Gibson, of Riccarton, ■ and Mrs P. Bell, of Dunsanl dpt